Whiting v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defense counsel’s decisions as to what jury instructions should be requested are generally matters of tactics and strategy
• finding that trial court “fairly instructed the jury on the State’s burden, as well as that facts and circumstances merely casting grave suspicion upon the defendant or merely raising speculation or conjecture of the defendant’s guilt would not authorize conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 19×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-26· cited 10×
• Abernathy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-29· cited 10×
• Garvin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-13· cited 9×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 9×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-04· cited 66×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Roland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 18×